Sentence examples for could only be understood from inspiring English sources

This "exercise of power", he claimed, could only be understood as being "exercised socially".

Aristotle failed to see the value of controlled experiment, believing that nature could only be understood whole.

While both biologies were important for studying life, Dobzhansky made it clear that Cartesian biology could only be understood in terms of Darwinian biology and not vice versa.

Felix Gorner, a racing reporter from RTL television channel, said the latest accident could only be understood within the context of Schumacher's history as a F1 driver.

These two complicated tasks "required skill and setting goals," and offered "hidden patterns for success that could only be understood with patience and confidence".

"I did not have to speak the language to see that a patient's health could only be understood by grappling with the social context in which the patient lived," she said.

Road-spattered appeals to motorists to "Beep For Brian" stood beside an accumulation of material that could only be read or understood close-up.

"Otherwise," he concluded, speaking not as a moralist or historian but as a practical filmmaker, " 'Caché' could be understood only in France, just as 'The White Ribbon' would only be understood in Germany".

An urban flâneur of the first order, she reminded us that cities could only be fully understood with our eyes, feet and ears -- not from the distant abstraction of architectural drawings.

Modern society could only be properly understood if the seemingly irrepressible acceleration of basic technological and social processes was given a central place in social and historical analysis (Adams 1931 [1904]).

By the end of the 20th century, it had become clear that the effects on gene expression observed in epigenetic phenomena and during development could only be fully understood in light of chromatin-based mechanisms.